Events
Medicine Buddha Day
September 19th, No October, November 17th,
December 17th
7-8:30pm Eastern Time
LIVE ON ZOOM
with Melanie Ryan
Registration: $25
Join Melanie Ryan, psychotherapist, and Tibetan Buddhist Teacher, for a guided meditation and deep healing. When we purify our minds of negative thoughts and beliefs, we clear ourselves of what blocks our true light.
This is a monthly meditation community gathering that will take place on Medicine Buddha Day, a day for healing and purification. Each month Melanie will offer a dharma teaching and meditation practice that invokes the Medicine Buddha. This can be used for self healing as well as sharing for the healing of others.
All levels welcome. This will be live online & recorded. If you cannot attend live, you can register and we will send you the recording within 24 hours.
Contributions will fund our documentary, TRAGICAL that will be filmed in Bhutan this October & November. Please contribute $25 or more if you can.
Venmo- Melanie-Ryan-33 (note TRAGICAL)
Zelle-Info@AncientWisdomToday.com
TRAGICAL BHUTAN gofundme:
The Golden Shadow Method
Omega Institute
August 21-23, 2026
SAVE THE DATE
Join Melanie Ryan, best-selling author, psychotherapist, and Buddhist teacher for a weekend retreat into the “golden shadow” where your most beautiful, positive qualities are stored. Using Jungian psychology, Buddhist philosophy, and Indigenous wisdom, we will journey into the unconscious and embrace the positive qualities that are suppressed. These include our psychic abilities, our creativity, joy, and playfulness. We will transmute dark shadow blocks into light, transmuting lower frequencies into higher vibrations of love, harmony, wisdom and joy. This is a deep remembering of the powerful love and light that lives within.
Golden Shadow Retreat
Scottish Highlands 2027
Exact Date TBA
Limited to 8 travelers
Email if interested
Activating The Lion’s Roar
In Buddhist tradition, the Lion is the symbol of courage. True courage is not about avoiding suffering. It is about having the bravery to completely embrace the raw, vulnerable, and painful realities of the human experience. The Lion’s Roar is the sound of freedom. It cuts through fear, anger, and self-doubt. By going against negative patterns and limiting beliefs, we remember our inherent goodness. This retreat is a call to action to awaken that inner power, allowing all of life’s experiences to be the fuel for the opening of your heart, a genuine heart of love, compassion, and wisdom.
Golden Shadow Retreat Greece 2028
June 2028
Max of 10 travelers
The 2028 retreat will be our 6th time to Greece and we can't wait to share it with you! Golden Shadow retreats are geared toward professional educators, healers, therapists, doctors, nurses, caretakers, and anyone who has a sincere interest in using ancient wisdom to heal themselves and others.
Led by Melanie Ryan and Demitra Vassiliadis, the Greece retreat takes you off the beaten path and into the heart and soul of ancient Greece. You will heal through the myths, legends, beauty and sacred sites. Greek archetypes teach us about the hidden energies within us. From Apollo to Chiron, and Asklepius to Hippocrates, we dive into the lineage of ancient Greek holistic health, healing, poetry, and soul.
Tragical Documentary in Bhutan
In October 2026, Melanie Ryan, Andy Steigmeier, and filmmaker Joe Plante will travel to Bhutan — known as the “Happiest Country in the World” — to complete filming. There, within Himalayan monasteries and sacred landscapes, Buddhist teachers, lamas, and practitioners will share teachings on impermanence, rebirth, and the sacred nature of death.
The film will capture:
- Rarely visited Himalayan mountain temples
- Intimate ceremonies with Buddhist masters
- Living spiritual traditions of archery and primitive skills passed down for centuries
- Cultural expressions of reverence and joy
Tragical is a journey of Justin’s Spirit helping Melanie & Andy, and all of humanity transform grief into a magical awakening of consciousness.
It invites us all to reflect ~
Who are we beyond the body?
What if understanding death allows us to live more fully?
What if remembering our impermanence is the doorway to inner peace and joy?
This documentary is dedicated to the benefit of all beings.
Support Our Mission
Please support the filming of Tragical in Bhutan and help ancient wisdom bring healing to our modern world. 🙏
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